The Albanese government promises to treat video games as art – but developers must also be treated like artists, and supported to experiment, fail and flourish Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If you head to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) in Melbourne right now, you can visit Out of Bounds, …
Joel and Ellie try to survive the bleak midwinter – then encounter David and his strange meat-eating club. What unbelievably horrifying viewing This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us. Please do not read unless you have seen episodes one to eight … After threatening it for a week or two, winter is now …
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Thousands of Twitter accounts post stream of praise for former president and ridicule his critics, including Haley and DeSantis Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts – perhaps hundreds of thousands of them – to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the …
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Cuts range from 4% on performance version of Model S to 9% on more expensive Model X Tesla has cut prices on its two most expensive electric vehicles in the United States, according to the company’s website, days after its chief executive, Elon Musk, said recent price cuts on other models had stoked demand. The …
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It may be just a game but some players have gone on to careers in physics, engineering and aeronautics. Now the team behind Kerbal Space Program 2 is working with the European Space Agency to make it even more realistic When Dr Uri Shumlack was contacted by a video game developer who wanted to discuss …
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Mouse movers have existed for years, but have recently become a symbol of resistance against workplace surveillance Watching Premier League matches can be difficult when you live in the US. For midweek games, the kickoff is often in the middle of the work day, posing a challenge even for remote workers: how do you keep …
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Despite fears that AI will replace workers, research shows that in real work situations humans still have the edge Artificial intelligence is getting everyone excited. It’s going to end or improve the world, depending on your optimism/pessimism. The latest hullabaloo was triggered by the release of ChatGPT – the progression of so called generative AI, …
Michelle Donelan says artificial intelligence represents a ‘massive opportunity’ for the civil service and beyond Artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT could play a role in Whitehall and represent a “massive opportunity”, the new science secretary has suggested. Michelle Donelan, who took over the new role after the prime minister’s departmental reshuffle last month, said …
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Information commissioner’s warning comes after leak of messages sent by Matt Hancock during Covid pandemic The widespread use of WhatsApp by parliamentary ministers and officials in Whitehall poses risks for transparency, the information commissioner has said. Writing in the Telegraph, John Edwards said there was nothing necessarily wrong with the use of WhatsApp, but that …
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Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft – let’s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage On 14 February, Kevin Roose, the New York Times tech columnist, had a two-hour conversation with Bing, Microsoft’s ChatGPT-enhanced search engine. He emerged from the experience an apparently changed man, because the chatbot had told …
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